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Color#cca494rgb(204, 164, 148) · red

#cca494 color

Values, variations, harmonies, an accessible palette and ready-to-paste CSS for #cca494.

Color values

The same color written in every notation you are likely to need. Click any row to copy it.

What HEX means

#cca494 packs three channels into hexadecimal pairs from 00 to FF: cc red, a4 green, 94 blue.

What RGB means

Red 204, green 164, blue 148 — each from 0 to 255. It is the same color as the hex above, just in decimal.

What HSL means

Hue 17° (red), saturation 35%, lightness 69%. HSL is handy when you want the same hue a little lighter or less saturated.

Why OKLCH

OKLCH is a perceptual space — changing its lightness (75.1%) matches how your eye reads brightness far better than HSL, which is why the palette below is generated in it.

Accessibility & contrast

WCAG requires at least 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text at level AA. Use this to decide whether white or black text belongs on this color.

AaThis text is readable
White text2.26:1
AA AAA AA Large
AaThis text is readable
Black text9.31:1
AA AAA AA Large

Closest accessible alternative

Nudged in lightness to reach 4.5:1 while keeping the hue as close as possible.

Aa

For white text

#936e5f

4.53:1

UI preview

How this color behaves in a real interface, not just as a square.

Badge

A paragraph with a themed link inside it.

Information

An alert accented with this color.

Progress

Tints & shades

A tint mixes the color toward white; a shade mixes it toward black. Click any swatch to open it.

Color harmonies

Schemes built by rotating the hue around the color wheel — the starting point for a coherent palette.

Complementary

Opposite on the wheel — maximum contrast.

Analogous

Neighbours on the wheel — calm and cohesive.

Triadic

Three hues 120° apart — vivid but balanced.

Split complementary

Softer than a straight complement.

Tetradic

Four hues — enough for a design system.

Palette generator

A Tailwind-style 50–950 ramp anchored on this color at step 500, generated in OKLCH so the steps feel evenly spaced.

:root {
  --primary-50: #fff5f0;
  --primary-100: #fbe8e1;
  --primary-200: #ecd3c9;
  --primary-300: #d9b9ac;
  --primary-400: #bd988a;
  --primary-500: #cca494;
  --primary-600: #815e50;
  --primary-700: #6a4a3d;
  --primary-800: #55392e;
  --primary-900: #452e24;
  --primary-950: #281913;
}

Gradient

A linear blend from this color to its complement, with the CSS ready to paste.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #cca494, #94bccc);

Nearest named colors

The closest matches from a corpus of about 31,900 named colours, ranked by ΔE (CIEDE2000) — a measure of how different two colours look. ΔE under 1 is nearly indistinguishable; around 10 is clearly different.

CSS code

Every common way to use this color in a stylesheet or a component.

color: #cca494;
background-color: #cca494;
:root {
  --color-primary: #cca494;
}
color: rgb(204 164 148);
color: oklch(75.1% 0.0527 42.9);
<div class="bg-[#cca494]">…</div>